Planner (Lead Project Planner)

Lead Project Planner

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create, update, and analyze project engineering, procurement, and construction schedules and schedule reports.
• Facilitates Interactive Planning Sessions, where key project stakeholders plan and discuss the major project tasks, interaction with other tasks, and the duration and timing of such tasks utilizing NewPoint
• Review each schedule activity with project stakeholders to confirm logic and duration, including equipment fabrication and delivery.
• Resource load discreet schedule activities, based on estimated hours. Ensure overall discipline task durations are workable and achievable given resource constraints.
• Develop and maintain detailed procurement vendor logic schedules.
• Develop and issue the project baseline schedule and basis
• Interact with engineering, procurement, construction, customer, and project stakeholders, obtaining activity progress. Update the project schedule, usually weekly.
• Interconnect schedule activities with EcoSys and progress deliverables in EcoSys.
• Analyze schedule updates, review critical path, review schedule performance indicators, review schedule variances from last update and baseline. Recommend corrective actions when necessary.
• Accountable for accurate and timely schedule reports, including variance analysis, critical path, summary, and detailed schedules.
• Actively participate in project review meetings, providing clear and accurate schedule assessment. Provide proactive advice to drive successful project completion.
• Incorporate approved project schedule changes into project schedules.
• Ability to work schedule and organize multiple projects within a portfolio or program.
• Perform schedule what if scenarios and analysis.
• Develop proposal schedules.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, or related fields preferred
• Minimum 15 years of experience in Engineering and Construction company Project Controls
• Must have previous Saudi Aramco experience
• In depth knowledge of Primavera P6
• Working knowledge of NetPoint
• Proven team player with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and to develop and maintain collaborative working relationships
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Innovative individual with a pro-active, analytical approach to problem identification and resolution
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite